The Bible teaches us to walk separately from the world around us. This means that we should not live like the world does. Those who do not accept Jesus do not believe in eternal life, and they think that the world is everything.
But we who believe we know this world is fleeting, and we have eternal life after death. That is why we should keep ourselves out of this world. We should never behave and live as the people of the world do.
The main purpose of our life is to enter into eternal life. Jesus came to earth to take us to the kingdom of heaven. So while we are trusting Jesus, we will keep ourselves out of this world by following all His teachings.
We may think that if we do not get worldly things it will be loss for us but we need to remember that going to eternal heaven is very valuable. So we should never lose our eternal life by getting caught up in the petty things of this world.
Let’s see the Bible scriptures below that talk about not following the world.
James 1:27 :—
“Pure religion undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless widows in their affliction, to keep himself unspotted from the world”
James 3:15 :—
“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish”
James 4:4 :—
“Ye adulterers adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God”
John 12:31 :—
“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out”
John 15:19 :—
“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you”
John 17:16 :—
“They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world”
John 8:23 :—
“He said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world”
Galatians 1:10 :—
“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ”
Galatians 2:20 :—
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, gave himself for me”
Galatians 5:16 :—
“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh”
Galatians 6:14 :—
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, I unto the world”
Ephesians 2:2 :—
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience”
Ephesians 4:17 :—
“This I say therefore, testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind”
Ephesians 4:22 :—
“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts”
Ephesians 5:11 :—
“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them”
Ephesians 6:12 :—
“For we wrestle not against flesh blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”
Colossians 2:8 :—
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, not after Christ”
Colossians 3:17 :—
“Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him”
Matthew 13:22 :—
“He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; the care of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, he becometh unfruitful”
Matthew 5:14-16 :—
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hidNeither do men light a candle, put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; it giveth light unto all that are in the houseLet your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, glorify your Father which is in heaven”
Matthew 6:24 :—
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, love the other; or else he will hold to the one, despise the other. Ye cannot serve God mammon”
Titus 2:12 :—
“Teaching us that, denying ungodliness worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, godly, in this present world”
Philippians 3:20 :—
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ”
Philippians 4:8 :—
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things”
Romans 13:14 :—
“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof”
Romans 1:21-22 :—
“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, their foolish heart was darkenedProfessing themselves to be wise, they became fools”
Romans 6:12-13 :—
“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereofNeither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, your members as instruments of righteousness unto God”
Romans 8:5 :—
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit”
Luke 16:15 :—
“He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God”